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Internal ID UUID644027be0f1e3325639242
Scientific name Calypso bulbosa
Authority (L.) Oakes
First published in Cat. Vermont Pl. : 28 (1842)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Limodorum boreale Sw. Neues J. Bot. 1: 85 (1805)
Norna borealis Wahlenb. Fl. Suec. , ed. 2: 561 (1833)
Orchidium arcticum Sw. Summa Veg. Scand. : 32 (1814)
Orchidium boreale Sw. Sv. Bot. 8: t. 518 (1816)
Calypso borealis Salisb. Parad. Lond. 2: t. 89 (1808)
Calypsodium boreale Link Handbuch 1: 252 (1829)
Cymbidium boreale Sw. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 76 (1799)
Cypripedium bulbosum L. Sp. Pl. : 951 (1753)
Cytherea borealis Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 301 (1812)
Cytherea bulbosa House Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 382 (1905)
Norna borealis var. europaea Wahlenb. Fl. Suecica 2: 561 (1826)

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Language Common/alternative name
English venus's slipper
English fairy slipper orchid
English fairy-slipper
English fairyslipper
Spanish orchidium americanum
Spanish zapatilla de venus
Spanish cytherea occidentalis
Spanish cytherea speciosa
Spanish cytherea bulbosa
Spanish calypso borealis
Spanish cymbidium boreale
Spanish cypripedium bulbosum
Spanish cytherea borealis
Spanish norna borealis
Spanish orchidium arcticum
Spanish orchidium boreale
Spanish orchidium
ba Калипсо
Czech kalypso severní
German kategorie:calypso bulbosa
German norne
Estonian haldjaking
Finnish neidonkenkä
Italian calipso
Japanese ヒメホテイラン
koi Калипсо
kv Калипсо
mdf Калипсо
mhr Калипсо
mrj Калипсо
Dutch bosnimf
Norwegian Nynorsk norne
Russian Калипсо луковичная
Russian Калипсо клубневая
Russian Калипсо
Swedish jungfrutoffel
Swedish norna
udm Калипсо
Chinese 布袋蘭
Chinese 布袋兰属
Chinese 布袋兰
Chinese 布袋蘭屬

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Name Authority First published in
Calypso bulbosa var. americana (R.Br.) Luer Native Orchids U.S. & Canada excluding Florida : 336 (1975)
Calypso bulbosa var. bulbosa Unknown
Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis (Holz.) Cockerell Torreya 16: 185 (1916)
Calypso bulbosa var. speciosa (Schltr.) Makino J. Jap. Bot. 3: 25 (1926)
Calypso bulbosa var. kostiukiae Catling Native Orchid Conf. J. 9: 1 (2012)

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- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • China North-central
      • China South-central
      • Inner Mongolia
      • Manchuria
      • Tibet
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
    • Mongolia
      • Mongolia
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Khabarovsk
      • Primorye
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • Buryatiya
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • West Siberia
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
    • Northern Europe
      • Finland
      • Sweden
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Minnesota
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Maine
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New York
      • Vermont
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Aleutian Islands
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000783846
Canadensys 6839
USDA Plants CABU
Tropicos 23500115
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30005930-2
The Plant List kew-32237
Open Tree Of Life 915007
Observations.org 81856
NCBI Taxonomy 78714
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0200001981
Nature Serve 2.132752
IPNI 30005930-2
iNaturalist 47215
GBIF 5323572
Freebase /m/025x1c
FEIS plants/forb/calbul
EPPO KLSBU
EOL 1089302
Elurikkus 516008
Calflora (Californian flora) 1333
USDA GRIN 455934
Wikipedia Calypso_bulbosa

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Conservation of the Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants in the Mining and Tourism Area: Khibiny Mountains, Murmansk Region, Russia Borovichev EA, Kozhin MN, Koroleva NE, Petrova OV, Akhmerova DR, Shulina MV Plants (Basel) 23-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11085426
doi:10.3390/plants13091180
PMID:38732395
What are the drivers of female success in food‐deceptive orchids? Wróblewska A, Ostrowiecka B, Kotowicz J, Jermakowicz E, Tałałaj I, Szefer P Ecol Evol 18-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11026981
doi:10.1002/ece3.11233
PMID:38646005
The orchid seed coat: a developmental and functional perspective Lee YI, Yeung EC Bot Stud 27-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10533777
doi:10.1186/s40529-023-00400-0
PMID:37755558
Traditional, Therapeutic Uses and Phytochemistry of Terrestrial European Orchids and Implications for Conservation Bazzicalupo M, Calevo J, Smeriglio A, Cornara L Plants (Basel) 05-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9863304
doi:10.3390/plants12020257
PMID:36678970
Scale‐dependent effects of marine subsidies on the island biogeographic patterns of plants Obrist DS, Fitzpatrick OT, Brown NE, Hanly PJ, Nijland W, Reshitnyk LY, Wickham SB, Darimont CT, Reynolds JD, Starzomski BM Ecol Evol 09-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9461347
doi:10.1002/ece3.9270
PMID:36177118
Fungal association and root morphology shift stepwise during ontogenesis of orchid Cremastra appendiculata towards autotrophic nutrition Zahn FE, Lee YI, Gebauer G AoB Plants 09-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9167560
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plac021
PMID:35673361
Flora of Mongolia: annotated checklist of native vascular plants Baasanmunkh S, Urgamal M, Oyuntsetseg B, Sukhorukov AP, Tsegmed Z, Son DC, Erst A, Oyundelger K, Kechaykin AA, Norris J, Kosachev P, Ma JS, Chang KS, Choi HJ PhytoKeys 14-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC8938380
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.192.79702
PMID:35437387
Distribution of vascular plants north of Lake Baikal: a new, open access dataset Sandanov DV, Brianskaia EP, Batotsyrenov EA Biodivers Data J 14-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8692304
doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e77409
PMID:34949957
The Waiting Room Hypothesis revisited by orchids: were orchid mycorrhizal fungi recruited among root endophytes? Selosse MA, Petrolli R, Mujica MI, Laurent L, Perez-Lamarque B, Figura T, Bourceret A, Jacquemyn H, Li T, Gao J, Minasiewicz J, Martos F Ann Bot 29-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8835631
doi:10.1093/aob/mcab134
PMID:34718377
The Welwitschia genome reveals a unique biology underpinning extreme longevity in deserts Wan T, Liu Z, Leitch IJ, Xin H, Maggs-Kölling G, Gong Y, Li Z, Marais E, Liao Y, Dai C, Liu F, Wu Q, Song C, Zhou Y, Huang W, Jiang K, Wang Q, Yang Y, Zhong Z, Yang M, Yan X, Hu G, Hou C, Su Y, Feng S, Yang J, Yan J, Chu J, Chen F, Ran J, Wang X, Van de Peer Y, Leitch AR, Wang Q Nat Commun 12-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8275611
doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24528-4
PMID:34253727
Taxonomy and phylogeny of the basidiomycetous hyphomycete genus Hormomyces Mack J, Assabgui RA, Seifert KA Fungal Syst Evol 12-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC8166209
doi:10.3114/fuse.2021.07.09
PMID:34124623
Morphological and genomic evidence for a new species of Corallorhiza (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) from SW China Yang JX, Peng S, Wang JJ, Ding SX, Wang Y, Tian J, Yang H, Hu GW, Wang QF Plant Divers 23-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC8591143
doi:10.1016/j.pld.2021.01.002
PMID:34816066
Asymbiotic germination and morphological studies of seeds of Atlantic Rainforest micro-orchids (Pleurothallidinae) Koene FM, Amano É, Smidt ED, Ribas LL PLoS One 14-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC7735581
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0243297
PMID:33315920
Brassicaceous roots as an unexpected diversity hot-spot of helotialean endophytes Maciá-Vicente JG, Piepenbring M, Koukol O IMA Fungus 11-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7419212
doi:10.1186/s43008-020-00036-w
PMID:32844083
Sensory bias and signal detection trade-offs maintain intersexual floral mimicry Russell AL, Kikuchi DW, Giebink NW, Papaj DR Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 18-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7331007
doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0469
PMID:32420844

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